Music - What do SDF Members like to listen to?

since im a bit younger than most folks here, my shares are: G.E.M from hk(new singer), Jane Zhang (amazing voice and skills), Linkin Park, Gary Cao, David Tao, Linkin Park, some Mariah Carey, Ayumi Hamasaki, Yuno Ito, Utada Hikaru

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Haven't posted in a while, and this seems like a good subject to talk about. I'm only 19 and live in the good ol' U.S.A. so I haven't been exposed to any of the foriegn music artists that have been praised by the members before me, or anything before 1990 (the year I was born), but to each there own right? I mean my parents were die hard country fans, but I have over 19 hours of metal saved on my WMP (Windows Media Player). Don't get me wrong, I have the upmost respect for anybodies taste in music, but as I said to each his own. My list includes the following:

Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Caliban, Slipknot, Himsa, Unearthed, Under Oath, Tool, A Perfect Circle, and the list goes on and on. As I said I have over 19 hours of this music saved on my comp alone. Only the tip of the Iceberg...

Aaron

I like Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Santana, The Doors, Cream. The Who

bladerunner said:

I like Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Santana, The Doors, Cream. The Who

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Apart from Tull and Santana, I've played music from the others in bands I've been in over the last twenty years! I like those two artists though, and would have played some 'Tull songs if we'd had a flute player...

In the band picture below (from 2004) I'm on your right with the cream coloured Stratocaster, since then I've lost about 70 lbs!:nana:

Cool, that group photo where's it taken?

bladerunner said:

Cool, that group photo where's it taken?

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Celebrationfest, 2004 Bicester UK. My band at the time were called Bruce's Spider (long story, funny at the time. Short version: we had a manager called Bruce, who usually paid for the rehearsal room. One band member asked if the landlady had been paid that week, got the reply "Oh yeah, Bruce has paid her", which in his accent came out more like Bruce's Spider. Like I said, funny at the time...).

At Celebrationfest we played along with a number of other acts on a bandstand in the middle of Bicester in Oxfordshire. Nice weather, good time had by all. Here's the larger photo:

Obi Wan Russell said:

Celebrationfest, 2004 Bicester UK. My band at the time were called Bruce's Spider (long story, funny at the time. Short version: we had a manager called Bruce, who usually paid for the rehearsal room. One band member asked if the landlady had been paid that week, got the reply "Oh yeah, Bruce has paid her", which in his accent came out more like Bruce's Spider. Like I said, funny at the time...).

At Celebrationfest we played along with a number of other acts on a bandstand in the middle of Bicester in Oxfordshire. Nice weather, good time had by all. Here's the larger photo:

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The town fathers at the time the bandstand was built would be spinning in their graves
For period singers of my time I liked Dusty Springfield and Roy Orbison, but on the band side through the influence of my flatmates who were the arty/ creative type I quite liked some of the Nice's work (5 Bridges Suite/ but I preferred Emerson lake and Palmer, and Pink Floyd when they had progressed through to the rock opera stage, and who didn't like at least some of Led Zepplin's work.

But basically Im stuck in a time warp, as I haven't progressed on to appreciate post modernism art work in any form.

bladerunner said:

The town fathers at the time the bandstand was built would be spinning in their graves
For period singers of my time I liked Dusty Springfield and Roy Orbison, but on the band side through the influence of my flatmates who were the arty/ creative type I quite liked some of the Nice's work (5 Bridges Suite/ but I preferred Emerson lake and Palmer, and Pink Floyd when they had progressed through to the rock opera stage, and who didn't like at least some of Led Zepplin's work.

But basically Im stuck in a time warp, as I haven't progressed on to appreciate post modernism art work in any form.

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We have a few Floyd numbers in the set at the moment, Comfortably Numb, Wish You were Here, Brick in the Wall pt2 (the usual suspects!). We do some more modern stuff as well, Muse (Knights Of Cydonia, Newborn, Feelin Good), Alanis Morrisette (our singer is of the female persuasion after all!), Evanescence, KT Tunstall, as well as older favourites from Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, ELO and others. Currently we are looking for a new drummer, as our previous one (a keen cyclist) had an argument with a brick wall and will be out of action for months!

Have you ever tried composing your own music?